Sharepoint content source problem

I had some large content source indexes in Sharepoint, but I've sincedeleted those indexes. The problem is sps.edb hasn't shrunk back to areasonable size. It's still sitting at 1.7 gigs. Is there a utilityI can run to force it to purge?

My database is about 6GB and it takes 9 mins. Sometimes it shaves awhole GB from the total size of my backups. I'm assuming that mycontent is changing rapidly enough for it to expire when the indexes arerefreshed.

I have been looking at this question also and immediatly thought of theESE defrag - check KB 285040. -http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];Q285040But Beau is looking at SPS.edb which contains the indexes. The articledoes not speak of using it on this file, only the wss.mdb file. Doesthis work on the sps.edb file?

I'm unsure, and I've removed my test sps server and replaced it with atest SPS v2.0 beta server. I did a quick google search but foundnothing but a french page that just happened to mention eseutil andsps.edb together.

Maybe a backup and a restore will result in a smaller file, but I doubtit.

Another option might be to backup, delete the file, re-run full indexes,and testing. Do this on a test server.

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